The php[architect] podcast has posted the fifth episode of its podcast covering the contents of their December 2017 issue, "Talking Code".

A look at the Talking Code issue for the month of December 2017 issue featuring articles on building an Alexa voice skill and chatbots with Laravel’s Botman project. Share your thoughts on the topics covered and leave a comment below.

Hosts Eric van Johnson and John Congdon are joined by guest Katy Ereira, a speaker in the PHP community and author of the chatbots article. They also discuss machine learning, PHP_CodeSniffer and PHP 7.2. You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly. Be sure to https://www.phparch.com/podcast/feed/ using their RSS feed.

The php[architect] magazine has released their latest issue for December 2017 - Talking Code. Articles in this latest issue include:

• "Chatbots and PHP" by Katy Ereira
• "Artificial Intelligence (AI) - The Future of Internet Services" by Kesha Williams
• "Command and Query API Design in Magento 2" by Michiel Rook
• "Learning Machine Learning, Part Three: Data Wrangling" by Edward Barnard

The usual columns are all returning including the Education Station, he Dev Lead Trenches and Security Corner. You can check out this issue and the rest of the articles on the issue's page on the php[archtect] website. If you'd like a sample of what's inside, be sure to check out this free article from (Eric Mann* covering one of the latest security-related features added in PHP 7.2: native libsodium support.